Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-workflow-orchestrationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-SkillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/alterlab-workflow-orchestration)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/alterlab-workflow-orchestration"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/alterlab-workflow-orchestration/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
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What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00176 | $0.02776 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00088 | $0.01388 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00035 | $0.00555 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00018 | $0.00278 |
Grade A, and why
alterlab-workflow-orchestration scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 211 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Workflow Orchestration — Compose AlterLab Skills into Multi-Agent Workflows
This skill is the orchestration layer. It does not do research, write, or review itself — it teaches how to wire the skills that do into agentic workflows using Claude Code's native subagent machinery and the Claude Agent SDK. Pick a pattern, point it at real AlterLab skills, copy the delegation prompt.
The five patterns below are the high-leverage shapes for academic work: fan-out
parallel investigation, a sequential pipeline, a judge panel,
adversarial verification, and a loop-until-clean review cycle. Each is
grounded in the current docs (see references/claude-orchestration-primitives.md
for the verified primitives, and references/composition-recipes.md for full
worked recipes with copyable prompts).
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when the user wants to:
- Run several AlterLab skills at once over independent inputs (e.g. verify 4 bibliographies, or research 3 sub-questions in parallel) and merge the results
- Chain skills into a pipeline where each stage hands off to the next
- Get multiple independent perspectives on one artifact (a judge / reviewer panel)
- Adversarially verify an output — one agent produces, a fresh agent tries to break it
- Iterate a loop until a quality gate passes (e.g. re-review until zero unresolved comments)
- Understand Claude Code subagents, agent teams, forks, or the Agent SDK well enough to author their own academic orchestration
Does NOT Trigger
| Scenario | Use Instead |
|---|---|
| The user wants the full research→write→review pipeline run for them | alterlab-research-pipeline (it already orchestrates the 9-stage flow) |
| The user wants original research / a cited report | alterlab-deep-research |
| The user wants one manuscript peer-reviewed | alterlab-paper-reviewer or alterlab-peer-review |
| The user wants citations existence-checked | alterlab-citation-verifier |
| The user asks about Claude API pricing / model ids / SDK billing | the claude-api skill |
What ships with it
3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 7d ago First seen · 211 lines · 176 tokens per session scan A f069f5a9979b
alterlab-workflow-orchestration is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (66 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 176 tokens to every session and 2,776 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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